ariana grande - my everything

demi has joints idc idc

both selena and demi have put out songs better than "problem" or whatever this new one is called within their current album cycles

"really don't care" is better than both ariana songs

"Problem" > "Come and Get It" > "Heart Attack"

Come and Get It is such a chore to get through compared to the other two in that comparison.

Selena's album before her most recent, When The Sun Goes Down, is really great. I love it just as much as Yours Truly.

all the 'problem' hate is so weird imo one of the best songs on radio rn

It is, which is a sad state of affairs.

there have been so many better radio songs, even just on pop radio, this year

Testament to either my low standards or the quality of the song itself that "Problem" has so many elements going against it and yet, I still love it.

It's lively, changes a lot, and doesn't sound like a monolithic EDM jock jam. And I bet marching bands are having a blast with it.

i don't hate "problem", it's just not amazing like most of the first album

if the only pop you hear is what's on the radio yeah it's probably one of the best i guess

i don't see what's so absurd about the opinion that cher lloyd's music in 2014 is better than ariana grande's unless you're equating success with quality

Why are we comparing her to Cher Lloyd again?

because no one wants to compare her to Ed Sheeran

"Break Free" is terrible.

it's a shame people keep looking to Zedd to deliver something with the same appeal as "Clarity" when they could just listen to the pretty good Foxes album instead

that'd require people giving a shit about the guest vocalists

The snippet of "Best Mistake" she posted has potential.

you know what, i give up. "break free" legitimately sounds good on the radio.

lyrics are still garbage but ariana barely even enunciates so it doesn't matter

yeah it's been growing on me too. I'd still rather hear her doing Babyface-style songs though.

"Break Free" just a garbage song in general I'm worried for bbg

That thing with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj is just the worst

i've been avoiding that so hard, how the fuck did jessie j manage to get ariana and nicki on a track???

Jessie J just seems like one of those industry charity cases that countless bigger stars and power players seem to be rallying around to keep in the spotlight for some reason. like Tyga or French Montana.

i feel like it's dr. luke calling in favors, and he's prob a good person to have asking for favors

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=12582

i just mean in general, like Jessie J was the 'house band' at the VMAs well before she had her one previous top ten U.S. hit, it has felt like a whole lot of people have bent over backwards to make her even moderately famous here

you think people are relentlessly foisting her on YOU?? multiply that by a hundred in the uk

and it has to be repeated, not a single pop fan i know has anything but disdain for her

that may be the overall sentiment, but didn't her debut single go to #2 over there? i just mean there was years and years of pushing her here with much more modest results.

like, her debut album is 4x platinum in the UK, didn't go gold in the states

I had to sit through someone's acoustic performance of that "Not About the Money" song or whatever the hell it is once and never have I so strongly wanted to kill myself.

This one ruined Xmas for me, forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9WuNniJZs4

it's frustrating that those foisted-on-us acts usually, eventually, find real success after we're all worn down and can't fight anymore. 4 songs in the top 10 is currently inhabited by iggy, sia and jessie j. sia sort of counts right? of course the picture next to "bang bang" is just ariana lol

Perhaps the best thing about Rita Ora's "I Will Never Let You Down" is that it's like Jessie J's "Domino" but not actually by Jessie J.

Not that I feel anything more than indifference toward Rita Ora per se. But it's all relative.

Kind of interested in the second Rita Ora single just to know whether IWNLYD was a fluke or whether she has suddenly grown a personality

IWNLYD isn't really that much superior to the rest of her marginally catchy but ultimately boring discography though? unless there's a remix à la seamus haji's "rip" to elevate it somewhere

i fucking love "i will never let you down" but there is definitely an elevating switch remix lex

there sure is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86mRsbXab-0

I like this new song a lot, even the Big Sean verse isn't completely awful: http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/ariana-grande-best-mistake-feat-big-sean/

hmmmmmmmmmmm

this is really shaping up to be a distancing from the first album, not just building on it

this wouldn't have sounded that out of place on the first album tho? and i like it.

'just building on' the previous album (basically rehashing it) would have been pretty disappointing imo

surely there's a middle ground between 'rehashing' and 'sprinting towards a more top 40 sound' that a phrase like 'building on' exists to describe

yeah the links are really very tenuous but she's gonna have a huge debut week so it's hard to fault them imo

i think we're all aware that ariana grande is going to be a huge commercial success but it's possible to fault the music within that, no?

Sort of

sure it's just one of those things where the motive of the critic and the motive of the artist start to clash in a way that is hard to reconcile